Improvement in scrap-books



DAVID R. BREED, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,448, dated February 20, 1877V application-filed November 4, 1876.

- Figurel represents a file or scrap book,

composed of bound envelopes opened, A representing the back of one such envelope, and B the face of another next adjoining it, showing its aps C. Fig. 2 is the same book closed.

For sake of convenience an ordinary alphabetical index is inserted, and the envelopes are paged or numbered, the number 17 in Fig. l being the page or number of that envelope.

' The object of my invention is to facilitate the collection of any 'suitable material, such as newspaper-clippings, photographs,`engrav ings, samples of merchandise, botanical speciniens, or other matter, and its more easy, rapid," and convenient arrangement in classes,

or `under various heads, topics, or divisions.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, the scrapbook constructed of envelopes, bound together in book form, substantially as shown and described. y J

DAVID R. BREED. Witnesses: Y

HENRY J. HORN, FRANK T. MIX.

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